THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,009 MARTIN COUNT" FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 30 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina* Thursday, April 12. 1951 Hear Twenty-nine Cases In County Recorder's Court ——$— Alleged Bootlegger* And Other Defendants Pay Fines Totaling 8515 -m Alleged bootleggers met in what is likely to be the first in a series of conventions in Judge R. T. Johnson's county court last Monday, the crowd of defendants, witnesses and friends overflowing one section of the court room. It was a sad day for more than one alleged violator, several of them grabbing at appeal straws to stay road sentences for a while at least. There was right much pock et digging, too, the clerk report ing fines levied in the amount of $515. The court was in session until late afternoon hearing the twen ty-nine cases. Proceedings: The case in which Kelly Carr was charged with assaulting a female was nol pressed or dis missed. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Lonnie Everett was fined $25, plus costs. Sentenced to serve twelve months on the roads for assault ing a female, Walter Barnes ap pealed to the higher court, and was required to furnish bond in the sum of $500 In a second case against him, Barney was found guilty of di unken driving and was fined $100, plus costs. He appeal ed and bond in the sum of $300 was required in that ease. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Maggie Davis was sentenced to jail for fuur months, the court suspending the road term for two years upon the payment of the costs, a $25' fine and the prosecuting witness’s $15 doctor's bill Charged on two counts with larceny and receiving, Pate Allen Purvis entered a plea of nolo oon tendre and was sentenced to the roads for six months in each case, the court suspending the road terms and placing the defendant on probation for two years. The defendant is to pay the costs and $37 40 for stolen goods. John A. Bennett, a second defendant in the case, was tound not guilty. Robert Lee Manning, colored, was tound not guilty .of drunken driving Manning Harrington, pleading guilty of drunken driving, was" fined $100, plus costs and lost his driver’s license for a year. James H. Kennedy, pleading guilty of operating a motor ve hicle without a driver’s license, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. Buck Godfrey and Henry Daw son Lilley. pleading guilty of vio lating the liquor laws, were each fined $15, plus costs. Clarence Swimpson was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for operating a motor vehicle with out a driver's license. Claude Roberson, colored, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for violating the liquor laws. Pleading guilty of non-support, James Perry was sentenced to the roads for six months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of the costs and $5 a week for file support of his wife. Pleading guilty, Dave Melton was fined $25, plus costs, for op eiatiug a irioioi vehicle without a driver's license. Charged with public drunken ness, Geo. Ward was ordered plac ed in a hospital for treatment. Drunk and disorderly, Alice Spence;' was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail. James E. Felton, pleading guil ty of violating the liquoi laws, wa» fined $50, plus costs. Pleading not guilty, Ode Mor gan was found guilty of violating (Continued on page six) Hen* Lay 'Lin Bin On Funner Bennett's I’urm —r Hens on Fanner Leonard Ben nett’s farm out in Bear G~ass Township don’t mess around when it comes to laying eggs. The farmer displayed a whopper here this week The choice hen fruit, weighing one-quarter of a pound, measured more than, six inches one way and more than eight inches the other way. School Committees Elected This Week SPEAKER Congressman Harold Cooley, a nationally known figure and representative of the State's fourth congressional district, will address the annual meet ing of the Martin County Farm Bureau in the Willlams ton High School auditorium, Friday evening of this week at 5:00 o'clock. W. Dave Nanning Died Early Today At Griffins Home Funeral Friiiav Afternoon For Well-Known Farm er Anti Citizen -• William Dave Manning, retired farmer and prominent citizen of ‘Griffins Township, died at his hofne there this morning at 5:45 o’clock. He had been in declin ing health for about five years, spending most of that time in bed, the victim of arthritis. His will to live had pulled him through m'any serious relapses, but years of suffering had sapped his vital ity and he never rallied from a relapse suffered about a week ago. The sun of the late Jim and Della Daniel Manning, he was born in Griffins Township 63 years ago on January 31, U!8t), living and farming there all his life. A good neighbor and thought ful friend, he was a leader in his community down through the years, holding membership in the Piney Groye Baptist Church and lending a helping hand to all worthy causes. In early manhood he was mar ried to Miss Mary Tice who died in 1912. One son, Julius Manning, of Griffins Township survives that union. His second marriage was to Miss Arbelle Jones in 1914. Surviving are, Mrs. Manning, eight sons, Leslie Manning of Ply mouth, Bobby Manning, Army Air Corps, stationed in Washing ton, D C.; Dalmaf Gray, Ervin, Thurman, Darrell, Buck and Jacy Manning, all of Griffins Town ship; four daughters, Mrs. Del mus Holloman of Raleigh, Mrs. John Trueft of Sanford, Mrs. Ma-y Lilley of Griffins, and Miss Bcttic Itidl 2tithe home; two brothers, Ben R., and Ste phen, of Griftins, and eight grand children A son, William James Manning, was killed in action in Germany on April 11, 1945. Funeral services will be con ducted in the Piney Grove church Friday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. W B Har rington The body will be earned to the church one hour before the service. Interment will be in the Ti*e Community Cemetery in Griffins Township. -<» Plan Physicals For Guardsmen Members of the Martin County National Guard will be given phy sical examinations here Sunday, according to unofficial informa tion released here today. Army doctors will come here to give the tests, it was reported. Several members of the focal unit, going on active duty last week, have already passed their ptijaiedb1, it Was pointed uui. Howard Gaylord Meets with Board As New Member J. C. .Manning Kf-Hodwl Siipriintrmlrnt For Two-Year Tc*rni Meeting in special session this week, the Martin County board of Education named the various lo 1 cal school committees, ami re elected J. C. Manning superinten dent of schools, all for two-year terms. Howard Gaylord, recently appointed a member of the board, 'was present for his first meeting, succeeding F C. Holliday Mr. j Gaylord and Messrs Ernest Ed j mondson and Get). C. Griffin were iccently appointed by the legis lature, Gaylord and Edmondson for four-year terms and Griffin for a two year term. The other two members of the .board, Messrs. J. D. Woolard, chairman, and Cecil Powell, have two more years to serve before their terms expire. All members were pre sent for the meeting. The superintendent's re-elec tion was by unanimous vote, fol lowing the nomination by Mem ber Griffin and a second by Mem ber Gayord. Quite a few changes were made m the local committee personnel. Some of the old committeemen resigned, while others were ap parently replaced by men who had children in school. Only one woman is included in the com mittee member list Two new members, C. A As kew and Mrs Wendell Griffin are joining Elmer Modlin on the Jumesvillc committee. B. F Lilley and Lester Griffin, old members, are welcoming Os car Roberson as a new member of the Farm Life committee. Bear Grass retains it's old com mittee in its entirety, Kneezer and E. C. Harrison and Chesley Jones. The Williamston committee re mains unchanged with R. L. Co burn, R. H. Goodmon, C. B. Clark, Sr., Marvin Britton and W. I. Skinner as its members. The Robersonville committee ! has three new members, Charlie j G. Forbes, Eugene Roberson and I Oscar Ayers. Old members are, ! S. L. Roberson and Dr. J M. Kil patrick. Four new members, N. W. Worsley, Henry Early, Sidney , Mallory and Clayton House are on the Oak City committee. El mer R. Edmondson is the old member of the group Sub-Committee Oscar Ayers is the new member with Garland Forbes and Alton Keel on the Everetts committee. Hamilton’s sub-committee in cludes, Roy Beach, a new mem ber, and Henry S. Johnson, Jr., and Clayton House. The Hassell committee has all ! new members: C. B. Burroughs, H. R. Purvis and Elmer R. Ed mondson. J. D Woolard was re-eleeted | chairman of the county board. Funeral Thursday Tor Mrs. Roebuck Mrs Andrew Roebuck, 68, died Tuesday night at 10:30 o’clock at i her home in Robersonville after I several weeks of critical illness. She was the daughter of the late Nancy Holliday and J. A Britton. Funeral services will be held from the Robersonville Christian Church Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. J. M. Perry, Christian minister, assisted by the Rev. R. E. Ferguson, Methodist minister. Burial will be in the Robersonville cemetery. Surviving besides her husband are two sons, Brodice Roebuck of ! Statesville, N. C., and Roger Roe buck of Norfolk, Va; two bro thers, Frank Britton of Dardens and Luther Britton of Williams ton; two sisters, Mrs. Charlie Rawls of Raleigh and Mrs S. W Manning of Williamston; and two I grandchildren. Asking Bids For Twenly-iwo Niles Of Conniy Roads Mileage Largest For This Comity oil Records Open Bids On April 21 -- Bids for the construction of 22.2 miles of black-top roads in Martin County have been called for, and are to be opened by the State Highway and Public Works Commission in Raleigh on April 24. The projects embrace the larg est mileage on record at any one letting in this county. The largest project, taking slightly more than one-third the total mileages, is the surfacing of the road from Highway IV at Corey’s Cross Roads through Bear Crass to a point near Eve j retts. The original project cm ' braced the route from Corey’s ^ Cross Roads through Bear Grass 16 Everetts and from Everetts to Spring Green „and then from Gold Point to Hassell, to Oak City, and from a point on High way 125 at Conoho Church to the River Road or the route from Hamilton to Palmyra. Work is nearing completion on the pro ject between Everetts and the River Road. The J. S. Hill Con struction Company is slated to complete the grading and drain age work on the other end of the route in time for the pavers. The second project in the pro posed letting is 2.4 miles of road from Roberson vi lie to a point west of the town and generally known as the Claude Green Road. The third and second longest project is the Loop or Poplar Point Road, leaving Highway 125 at Nicholson’s station and contin > uing on around and back to High way 125 at the Sherrod Farm near Ha milton. A fourth project is centered in the town of Hassell. About one half mile long, the road forms a loop, intersecting the road front Gold Point at one plac'e and the Hassell-Butler Bridge Road at one point. Another paving project is on the road leaving Highway 125, near the J. S. Ayers farm, and running about two miles toward Hassgll to connect with the Gold Point-Oak City Road The small gap in the Hasseil Butler’s Bridge Road, connecting Highway 125, is to be paved. The unpaved portion there is about one-half mile. Divorce Cases To Be Tried Nonday In Superior Court All Kiplit Action* IIummI On Two-Year Separation Ground* Eight divorce cases, all based on two-year separation grounds, have been scheduled for trial next Monday when the Martin County Superior Court opens a two-week term for the trial of civil cases only. Judge Henry A Grady, emergency judge, is slated to pre side over the first week •( the term, and Judge W I. Halstead of South Mills is to preside over the second week It: her ease against Charles Curtis, Hazel Dorman Curtis says they were married September 9, 1943, and separated July 31, 1948, that one child was born of the union. Mary Lou Edwards in her case against Johnnie Edwards says they were married April 22, 1948, and separated January 8, 1849, that one child was born of the union. In the case of Martha Pye against Lester Pye, the plaintiff states they wen married in Nor folk in 1945 and separated in March, 1946, that a son born of the union is in her care and re ceives no support from the de fendant. She is asking permanent custody of the child. Louise Bowen Lee, suing Er nest Lee for divorce, says they were married July 1, 1936 and separated in April, 1946, that four children were born of the union. One of the children is living with thi defendant’s father and three are living with hej and without >Arav -wv %/ v (Continued on page cut) County's Eighth Annual Stock Show Under Way Mere Today Cooley To Speak To Farm Bureau Friday Afternoon -4 Fxpcclin*: l.arjjr (Crowds For Stock Sale U’nl Bur bceue Tomorrow -.*> Animals, including fourteen prize steers and more than two hundred top hogs, started moving early this morning for the open ing of Martin County's eighth an nual Fat Stock Show here in the Roanoke-Dixie warehouse. All the steels vvt ie in place by 10.00 o'clock and the last of the hogs are to be on exhibit by fi:00 o’clock this evening. The steers are being judged this afternoon at i.:30 o'clock by E K Jiarriek, State College animal nutritionist, assisted by J. R Franck, assist ant farm agent ol Beaufort Coun ty. They will also judge the hogs, beginning at 11:30 tomorrow morning. Many buyers have been invited to attend the sale, beginning at 1:00 o'clock Friday afternoon. Prices for steers in other shows have been averaging around forty cents a pound, with the prices for hogs ranging about one cent above the market. Tomorrow is the lug day. All animals will be sold beginning at 1:00 o’clock, and the Martin Coun ty Farm Bureau will open its program at the high school at 4:30 o'clock, climaxed by an address by Congressman Harold Cooley and the annual barbecue. More than two thousand are expected for the* program at the high school. Congressman Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Com mittee, will be accompanied here b.v Congressman Herbert Bonnei The subject of Congressman Cooley’s address will be "Tragic Mistakes and Wise DecisionsIn troduetory to the main theme of his address, Mr. Cooley will dis cuss briefly the Farm Program in relation to the national einer geney, and will substantiate by facts and figures his contention that farm prices are not responsi ble for high food costs, a fact which he has been determinedly proving of late through press re leases and magazine and farm journal articles In this cornier tion Mr Cooley will explain, in Layman terms, the principal of (arm parity prices, and through the medium of official statistics horn the U. S. Department of Ag rieulture, will demonstrate that, with a few minor exceptions, the great majority of agricultural (Continued on page six) Armstrong Is New Manager of WIAM —t,— Mr Rufus Armstrong, known to thousands of radio listeners as Lncle Rufus , has been appoint ed manager <>( the Martin County Broadcasting Company’s station, WIAM, here it was announced this morning by the owners, Messrs. J: H: Giay, C’has. Gray and Hen ry A. Johnson. He is succeeding Kobt. L. Eas ily who is being recalled by has firm, Mason and Dixon Engineer ing Company, in Washington, D. C. The owners said they accepted Mr. Easley’s resignation effective today. Mr. Easley is telling his friends here goodbye today and plans to leave late this afternoon to resume his duties with the Washington firm. He handled all the engineering for the station here and managed it since its op ening last month. Mr. Armstrong, a native of New Bern, was with Radio Station WRRF, Washington, for more than five years, and comes to his new post after nearly three years with Station WHED in Washing ton. He is a showman of note, handling a number of produc tions after being on the stage. For the present he will commute, but he plan;-: t.. bring Mis Arm strong and then seven-month-old son here later. Test Regional Blood Bank In Recent Emergency Here The Tidewater Regional Blood | Bank, maintained by the Ameri ean Red Cross, is eredited with , triumphing over death in an emergency here a few days ago. Entering a loeal hospital, a pa tient was wheeled direetel.v to the operating room for emergency surgery. Two pints of blood held in readiness were given the pa tient immediately and an emer geney call was made to the cen ter in Norfolk It was too late for a plane to make the trip before dark, and Virginia's highway pa ired picked up the life-saving blood and delivered it to a mern-j her of the North Carolina patrol ] at the border. The additional! blood was being given the patient in less than an hour and a half lifter the call was matle ami the patient was able to walk out of the hospital a few days later Approximately forty pints of blood have been used loeully since arrangements were made for this chapter to participate in the Red Cross blood bank program. The emergency last week was the first big test and the program met it without a hitch. Learning about the emergency and how successfully it was met, V. J Spivey, one of the recruiters for the program, said that it was worth all the trouble, time and expense to know that possibly some one's life had been saved by it and that the service is avail able to every person in the Martin County Red Cross Chapter F our teen Men Leave For Final Induetion -0R>- f Seventy-Five Men To Go For Exams Monday, April 23 -- ■*>- - Only Five Men llein^ Called For Final Indnelion (hi May 22ml Fourteen Martin County men, nine colored and five white, left yesterday morning for final in duction into the army at Fort Bragg The group included one volunteer, one delinquent and twelve draftees j The original call was foi twen ty-five men, hut was reduced about two weeks ago. Nexl month, five men (from the county are to report for final induction. On Monday, April 23, 75 county men are to report for their pre-induc tion tests No instructions have been received as to the number of men likely to report for the | pro induction tests in May The names of those leaving yes terday foi final induction While Carl Bradford Gardner, KFD 1, Williamston Hubert Joseph l'erry KKO, Wil liamston. Winslow Morton (hitcher, Wil liamston. Harry Otto Jarman, Jr, Wil : liamston. Whitfield Evans Mallory, Eve | retts. Colored William Frank Bell, Williams ton Clarence Bogie Gainer, Hl’l) 1, Hobersonville Monroe Wilson Spruill, KFD J, Williamston. Zeb Rollins, Jr , KFD 2, Hob erson vd le Columbus Roberson, KFD 1, Jamesville James Felton Brown, KFD 2, Williamston f Sylvester James, KI D I, Janu s viile. Arthur I,on Taylor, KFD 1, Oak City. William Robert Little, KFD 1, Hobersonville Car-Truck Crash Near Jamesville —4—_ No one was hurt and property damage, estimated at $150 result ed, when a ear and truck crashed about two miles from Jamesville on Highway 171 Tuesday after noon at i 15 o’clock It L. Stallings, started to make a left turn into his driveway about the time Harry McMullan, Jr, Washington attorney, started to pass The ear struck the Chevro let truck in the side, according to Patrolmaq M F" Powers who riiuiic lb< Viacshgale-n Damage lo McMullan s Dodge convertible | I coupe was estimated at $125. KLKCTIOIN r 'N J llallols arc being printed ami ulhcr arrangements have been completed lor holding Williamston's third biennial municipal election next Mon day. The |h> I Is will be opened in the town hall at d l(r I'ilril Willi Kah ili Offi« «* Ity April .'tO More Ilian one hundred mer chants, must el them hopelessly con fused, heard Mrs Nina Shaw of Raleigh discuss rules and reg ulations released by the federal Office of Price Stabilization in a meeting held in the couny courthouse here last night Al though admittedly confused, sev eral of the business men declared that the system isn't really as complicated at it appeared to be. It was agreed that the system will fake considciable time, but that il the job r- earnestly lacKicd there’ll be little lor most mer chants to worry about m the fu ture Mi.. Shaw explained that price charts, showing prices as of Feb ruary 24, 1951, should he m the state office at Raleigh not later than April 90 She also explain ed that a merchant may elect to stay under thi general ceiling price regulation. It was pointed out, however, that to stay under the general ceiling price regula tion, the merchant will ..not be al lowed to advance his sale prices even il the prices ol new goods are increased. In other words, il a merchant elects to stay under the general ceiling price regula tion and he is selling a pair of socks for a quarter, he will have to hold to that price even if the wholesale cost goes lo 24 cents a pair. The OPS representative ex plained that the original regula tion had been amended to include musical instruments and supplies, chinaware, jewelry and allied items. They are to be listed as of Marih 91 (Continued from page seven) Thirty-One Civil Cases on Calendar In Superior Court S«‘v«tuI Si/.ahli* Damage Suit* To Be Tried During The Two-Week Term Thirty-oik' rases, including eight divorce actions, have been placed on the calendar for trial during the two-week special term of Martin County Superior Court opening next Monday. The list includes several sizable damage suits and claims. Judge Henry A. Grady of New Bern, returning to the county for the first time in about twelve years, is to preside over the first week of the term, and Judge W. 1 Halstead is to preside the second week. No criminal cases will be considered during the term. Cases on the calendar include the following: Janies Clic. iy ■ suing Floyd A. 'Whitfield for $3,733 damages al leged to have resulted in a mule and cart automobile accident on Highway 125 between Williams ton and Hamilton last August 19. , The plaintiff is asking $23 cart and $100 mule damages, $108 med ical bill and $3,500 for personal injuries. In a counter-suit, the defendant is asking $271 damages alleged to have resulted to his i car. Melvin Godard, in his suit against Leslie Godard, is asking $995.98 alleged due him for goods and services rendered in April and May, 1948. C. E Moore is asking $295.18 alleged due on account in his suit against J. B Andrews. Claiming he bought a mule sup posed to have been free of mort gage and that he later lost the j animal to the owner of the mort 1 gage, Charlie Duggar is suing Joe 11. Mizelle to recover $200. W W, Griffin is suing Lindsley Ire Company for $400 alleged due under a sales contract. Harrison Oil Company, in its suit against J. D Harrison, Jr., is asking $551.95 alleged due on ac : count. W K. Everett is asking $2,000 damages alleged to have resulted when the defendant, William Ev eiett, stai ted ,i tire that spread to the plaintiff's timber. | Claiming that she was entitled 1o $1,000 for earing for Johnnie Jones during fourteen months prior to August, 1950, Lucy Bry ant is suing the administrator, F. B. Harrell. Dixie Peanut Company is ask ing $385 (13 of W H Meeks for damages alleged to have resulted to the plaintiff’s peanuts while be ing transported by the defendant, Jack .Daniels is suing Harry Jones for $88.24 alleged due on account. Simon D Moore is asking $301 alleged due under contract. The defendant, A T Whitley, Sr„ de I nies the claim, and in a counter suit asks $80 house rent of the plaintiff. In the ease of J. T. Heath against Arthur Simpson, the plaintiff is asking $252.91 alleged due under a farm contract. The defendant, in a counter-claim, ,isks $500 for alleged bodily in ■ juries. In the ease ol W. L. Hollis | against Dorothy Taylor, the plain , tilt claims $517.(iti under a farm ! contract. i D (i Matthews is asking $100 foi property allegedly held by Grant Spruill illegally Hie case of Mamie C. Campbell against W A. Campbell and exe cutors of the estate of Henry D. Peel is again on the calendar after i having been scheduled for trial i several times previously. In her [complaint, the plaintiff says they were married May 20, 1933, and allegedly abandoned l>v the dc fondant March 28, 1938. The pat - ties, it is pointed out, entered into a contract whereby the defendant was to give plaintiff custody of (Continued on page alg) --—^ ILL IN NEW VORK Julc Purvis, native of this coun ty and former local resident, con tinues critically ill in New York’s Roosevelt Hospital. Visiting in the city, Mr. Purvis suffered a heart attack while attendin'' a,, how in Radio City Monday eve | ntng.